Please Help Save Internet Radio
Many of us who gather online also listen to radio while we are online.
That’s about to change. If Congress doesn’t act now to effect a change the fees charged to internet radio stations for broadcasting online are about to go up drastically. Effective May 15, 2007 and retroactive to January 1, 2006. A move that will most likely cause most internet radio stations to go bankrupt. Thus, once again leaving the likes of Clear Channel and their ilk to dominate the radio industry with their homogenized version of top 40, smooth jazz, fake country and Christian rock. Most new and independent artists depend on the small independent radio and internet radio stations for airplay. Without internet radio their voices will fall silent. Many internet radio broadcast stations are college based or Public Radio stations who, as well as broadcasting on the lower bandwidths over the radio waves also stream their feed on the internet to reach a broader audience outside their limited reach with their low power broadcast towers.
Personally I would miss my fix of WWOZ out of New Orleans, and the ability to listen to my local college station any where that I go and have Internet access.
To find out more about this threat to internet radio and to find out how to make your voice heard in this matter you can go to
http://www.savenetradio.org/index.html .
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Comments: 23
Sigh.
Fine.
Jackie, it's not that I don't like 'Smoooooooth Jazz' (in small quantities:)
It's that I do like being able to have other choices of what to listen to. Until I discovered internet radio I was either playing CD's or listening to NPR or my college radio station for music as the rest or the airwaves was full of recycled 70's 80's and 90's pop or 'Classic rock' etc. I just happen to like Americana, Cajun/Zydeco, Blues, and 'real' country music as opposed to the Nashvegas pop with twang that they try to pass off as 'Country'.
Hey, feel MY pain-- my car's CD player broke, and now I'm stuck with FM radio. I'm with ya on independent stations, babycakes.
Uh, what about smooooth jazz?
Jackie, I'm counting Harry Connick Jr as smoooooth jazz... and I like his music!
Rubicon, you're stuck in the same time warp, aren't you...confess...there hasn't been insightful, hard-hitting news since Watergate broke. :)
Note how Internet radio became increasingly popular after de regulation and the beginning of the Clear Channel et al monopolization of our radio and television broadcasting industry.That being said it just follows the whole monopoly of our air waves by one or two ultra conservative companies feeds right in to the current government administration's obvious desire to keep us as ignorant of what goes on in the real world as possible.
Independent music usually includes those who protest the current status quo... silencing internet radio is just another way to silence the voice of "we the people"!
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Jim Swan's "None-Too-Great Hits" now on iTunes.
Un-HOT!!! un-lewd, un-mindless. Not the usual Top-40 stuff.
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